William Bennett Quotes
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
Quotes to Explore
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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People want you to fail.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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There's an electrical thing about movies.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.”
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As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
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I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
